{"id":213061,"date":"2026-03-31T14:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/213061\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:35:10","slug":"the-scoop-tues-mar-31-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/213061\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Tues. Mar. 31, 2026 Tampa Bay and Florida headlines by WMNF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Scoop-color-2048x2048-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-256273 size-256273 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Justice Department sues owner of Sea World and Busch Gardens<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department is suing over violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa stars come together for a golf tournament to raise funds<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by a local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/tampa-wrestling-star-and-hosts-celebrity-golf-tournament-for-a-cause\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/tampa-wrestling-star-and-hosts-celebrity-golf-tournament-for-a-cause\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Tampa philanthropist and wrestler<\/a>, these stars came out to Tampa yesterday to raise money for youth programs.<\/p>\n<p>Pinellas County\u2019s 13th Congressional District democratic challengers push for major changes in ICE<\/p>\n<p>At a recent forum, candidates expressed their outrage with the actions of ICE and are calling for the agency to face major reform or abolishment.<\/p>\n<p>Governor DeSantis signs another death warrant<\/p>\n<p>The 7th execution of the year is set for James Ernest Hitchcock, who will be executed on May 7th.<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop: Tampa Bay &amp; Florida headlines by WMNF<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop, produced by Sofia Caballero.<\/p>\n<p>WMNF anchors Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Lisa Marzilli, Josh Holton.\u00a0<br \/>WMNF News Director Se\u00e1n Kinane<br \/>WMNF reporters Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Lisa Marzilli, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Leah Burdick, Sofia Caballero, Josh Holton<br \/>Special thanks to Taylor Lovejoy and Corey Beltran.<\/p>\n<p>Theme music, Fresh06, by Stian via archive.org \u2013 CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/jamendo-001084\/02.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/jamendo-001084\/02.mp3<\/a><br \/>The Scoop logo by Robin Milcowitz \/ Greener Pixels \/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/greenerpixels.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">greenerpixels.com<\/a>\u00a0\/ WMNF<\/p>\n<p>information from News Service of Florida, the Associated Press and Florida Public Media was used in this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justice Department sues owner of Sea World and Busch Gardens The Justice Department is suing over violations of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[15127,3291,33636,16665,30415,1157,135,137,136,416,19123],"class_list":{"0":"post-213061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-charity","9":"tag-florida-governor","10":"tag-justice-department","11":"tag-local-government","12":"tag-news-and-public-affairs","13":"tag-pinellas","14":"tag-tampa","15":"tag-tampa-headlines","16":"tag-tampa-news","17":"tag-the-scoop","18":"tag-wmnf-88-5-fm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}